How to style notifications in Mountain Lion?what is not so obvious (maybe not possible) is changing the color of the type used in each banner, and since it's black, it would not work well with dark colored banners... anyway the adventure continues. NB The size of each of the tiffs in question must remain exactly the same, Also, mucking around with your system carries risk! Don't even consider doing stuff like this if you are not comfortable rescuing yourself from whatever weirdness you might cause!

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How to style notifications in Mountain Lion?I took a look at NCBackgrounder, didn't work for me, the developer acknowledges that some bugs need to be worked out... one method that I know actually works is (work only on a copy please!) editing the tiff resources within the application package itself which is in System/Library/CoreServices. The relevant files are in Contents/Resources and are called "banner1line.tiff, banner2line.tiff, banner3line.tiff" ...

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How to style notifications in Mountain Lion?Hi, Maybe I should have been clearer. I was not looking for advice on how to use System Preferences. I was thinking about various system hacks such as plist modifications or swapping out particular system resources.There are numerous examples of this being possible, an example might be restoring the interface of AddressBook (now "Contacts") to brushed metal from the new leather-look.